“This is literally my favorite role. The role of Sheila is
like nothing else. There's no holds barred with her.” Callie
Thorne (about her role on “Rescue Me”)

American actress Callie Thorne has worked on television, films and
on stage. A member of the New York City acting troupe Naked Angels
and the now-defunct theater company Malaparte, she is perhaps best
remembered as the 9/11 widow, Sheila Keefe, on the FX popular drama
“Rescue Me” (2004-2007) and for playing Detective Laura
Ballard on the NBC hit series “Homicide: Life on the Street”
(1997-1999). Primarily recognized for her TV work, the New York
native has also had recurring roles on such well-known shows as HBO's
“The Wire” (2002-2008), NBC's “ER”
(2005-2006) and Fox's “Prison Break” (2006-2008) and
appeared in guest spots on “Law & Order” and its
spin-offs, “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and
“Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Third Watch,”
and “Wainy Days,” to name a few. Movies in which Thorne
has acted in include Robert Butler's “Turbulence” (1997),
Brad Anderson's “Next Stop Wonderland” (1998), “Double
Parked” (2000), Edward Burns' “Sidewalks of New York”
(2001), Tim McCann's “Revolution 9” (2001), Harold Ramis'
“Analyze That” (2002), Jay Jonroy's “David &
Layla” (2005), Tom DiCillo's “Delirious” (2006) and
Paul Soter's “Watching the Detectives” (2007). The
experienced stage actress has acted with actors such as Philip
Seymour Hoffman, who also directed her in the 2005 stage production
of “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot,” Amanda Peet, Robert
De Niro, Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis, Denis Leary and Lucy Liu.

Calliope Silver

Childhood and Family:

“My mother, for several years, was a struggling young single
mother with me. I drew so much from her.” Callie Thorne

Daughter of a celebrity astrologer, Karen Thorne, Calliope Silver
Thorne, who would later be popular as Callie Thorne, was born on
November 20, 1969, in New York City, New York. She grew up in
Lincoln, Massachusetts, and graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional
High School in 1987. She furthered her studies at Wheaton College in
Norton, Massachusetts, from which she received a degree in theatre
and dramatic literature. Callie also attended The Lee Strasberg
Institute in New York.

Detective Ballard

Career:

Playing the role of Anita in her high school production of “West
Side Story,” Callie Thorne went on to become a full-fledged
stage performer thanks to her work with the NYC acting troupe Naked
Angles and the Malaparte Theater Company. Actor Ethan Hawke directed
her in the Malaparte production of “Veins and Thumbtacks,”
a play by Jonathan Mark Sherman. Thorne also had roles in such stage
productions as the Philip Seymour Hoffman-helmed “The Last Days
of Judas Iscariot,” opposite Sam Rockwell and Eric Bogosian,
“Joe Fearless,” “Gone Home,” and “The
Country Club.”

Billed as Calliope Thorne, the dark haired actress broke into the
big screen in 1996 when she landed a small role in John Walsh's
critically acclaimed independent comedy “Ed's Next Move,”
which starred Matt Ross. She then appeared in Robert Butler's
“Turbulence” (1997, with Ray Liotta and Lauren Holly),
Brad Anderson's “Next Stop Wonderland” (1998, opposite
Hope Davis and Philip Seymour Hoffman), Emily Baer's “Chocolate
for Breakfast” (1998, with Isabel Gillies and Marin Hinkle) and
“Giving It Up” (1999), an indie comedy starring Mark
Feuerstein and Amy Redford and directed by Christopher Kublan.

Although she was a natural in front of film cameras, Thorne's
career did not move to a higher level until she was hired to portray
Laura Ballard on the NBC popular crime series “Homicide: Life
on the Street.” As a seasoned homicide detective transferred to
Baltimore from Seattle, she was on the show from 1997 to 1999.

Entering the new millennium, Thorne could be seen in “Wirey
Spindell” (2000), a comedy directed, written by and starring
Eric Schaeffer, Stephen Kinsella's “Double Parked”
(2000), in which she starred as Rita Ronaldi, a single mother
attempting to raise her son, and the Amanda Peet comedy vehicle
“Whipped” (2000), where she had the important role of
Liz. Also in 2000, she reprised her role of Detective Laura Ballard
for the made-for-TV film “Homicide: The Movie,” and
appeared in episodes of “Ed” and the critically appraised
Comedy Central series “Strangers with Candy.”

Thorne next appeared in the comedy “Sidewalks of New York”
(2001), directed and written by Edward Burns (also played the
character of Tommy), and Tim McCann's thriller “Revolution 9”
(also 2001), which also starred Michael Risley, Adrienne Shelly and
Spalding Gray. The following year found her in the Robert De
Niro/Billy Crystal box office flop “Analyze That,” where
she appeared as FBI agent Cerrone, the festival-winning “Washington
Heights” and the HBO original movie “Hysterical
Blindness,” which was helmed by Mira Nair and starred Uma
Thurman and Juliette Lewis. On TV, Thorne appeared in one episode of
NBC's “Third Watch” and began her recurring role of
Elena, the former wife of Baltimore Homicide Detective James McNulty
(played by Dominic West), on the HBO series “The Wire.”

A guest star in two “Law & Order” spin-offs: “Law
& Order: Special Victims Unit” (2003-2004, as Nikki
Staines) and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” (2004, as
Sheila Bradley), Thorne gained attention with her role of Sheila
Keefe, the widow of a firefighter, on the FX hit series “Rescue
Me.” Costarring alongside Denis Leary, Mike Lombardi, Steven
Pasquale, Andrea Roth and Daniel Sunjata, she appeared in the show on
49 episodes from 2004 to 2007.

Thorne also appeared in four episodes of the long-running medical
series “ER” during the 2005-06 season, and in episodes of
“Law & Order,” “The American Experience”
(both 2006) and “Wainy Days” (2007). In 2006, she landed
a recurring role on Fox's “Prison Break.”

Thorne revisited the big screen with roles in the 2005 films
“Strangers with Candy,” “The F Word,”
“Robin's Big Date” and “David & Layla”
(played David Moscow's fiancée). She was next featured with
Steve Buscemi, Gina Gershon and Alison Lohman in “Delirious”
(2006) and supported Cillian Murphy and Lucy Liu in “Watching
the Detectives” (2007), an uninteresting romantic comedy by
Paul Soter.

Thorne's most recent film project is “Welcome to Academia,”
which was filmed in New Orleans, Louisiana. In the movie, she stars
as Valery, opposite Jess Weixler as Sophie, James LeGros as Revis,
and Matt Servitto as Weldman. The director of the comedy film is Kirk
Davis, who also co-wrote the script with Elzbieta Szoka.